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Adieux: A Farewell to Sartreby Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De BeauvoirISBN 0394530357 (0-394-53035-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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After the Strokeby May SartonISBN 0393306305 (0-393-30630-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulagby Patrick Watson, Alexander DolgunISBN 0394494970 (0-394-49497-0)
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Alone Togetherby Elena BonnerISBN 0394558359 (0-394-55835-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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An American Storyby Debra J. DickersonISBN 0385720289 (0-385-72028-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby V. S. NaipaulISBN 0394509692 (0-394-50969-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Among the Thugsby Bill BufordISBN 0393033813 (0-393-03381-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 0393301575 (0-393-30157-5)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Arrow of the Blue Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through Indiaby Jonah BlankISBN 038547203X (0-385-47203-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankeesby Matthew McGoughISBN 0385510209 (0-385-51020-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124by Edmund WhiteISBN 0394564448 (0-394-56444-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124'Book summary:When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
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The Best Defenseby Alan DershowitzISBN 0394507363 (0-394-50736-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Black Knight, White Knightby Gloria VanderbiltISBN 0394544129 (0-394-54412-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journeyby Toi DerricotteISBN 0393045447 (0-393-04544-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey'Book summary:Realizing that her light skin and "good hair" conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white. She speaks ambivalently of milking such moments, deliberately making end runs around her dark-skinned husband, Bruce, while looking for a home in an all-white suburb or hoping for a decent hotel room. Derricotte talks bluntly, too, of a self-loathing that accompanies being black in America and of not being "black enough." Her honest, angry, painful truth-telling veers into self-absorption and repetition, but perhaps that's fitting: racism hammers away at people in tiny and huge events repeated day after day. Says Derricotte, "My skin causes certain problems continuously, problems that open the issue of racism over and over like a wound." [via]
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Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Graceby David BeersISBN 0385475098 (0-385-47509-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bodies in Motion and at Restby Thomas LynchISBN 0393321649 (0-393-32164-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodies in Motion and at Rest'Book summary:All poets who take their jobs seriously spend a good deal of their time pondering death. Few, though, have logged as many hours as Thomas Lynch, who for 25 years has been a funeral director in Milford, Michigan. As might be expected from a writer who performs "daily stations with the local lately dead," Lynch's second essay collection, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, has a lot to say about both the current state of his industry (with its "Walmartized" funerals) and the attitude Americans have toward death, which is more or less to pretend it doesn't exist and to hope it never happens to us or anyone we know. Of course, this leads to our inability to properly understand life. And we become one of those stunned mumblers whom the author has spent a lifetime consoling and selling caskets to at Lynch & Sons.
As in his previous collection, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Lynch muses on contemporary American life with an appealing mix of light and dark. The effect can be striking, especially in his essays on the death of a crafty old gravedigger; the alcoholism he inherited from his father and, devastatingly, watches develop in his son; his divorce and the wicked poem he later writes about his ex-wife. His prose is always lively, though in several essays he relies on the same cultural touchstones--Bill Gates, the Internet, his Catholic-school upbringing and the "wonderful breasts" of the nuns, and (oddly) the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song "Love the One You're With." More unfortunately, he can lapse into familiar generalizations of the "we boomers" or "as an Irish Catholic" variety. Then again, funeral directors must keep an eye on the habits and statistics of generations and groups (as Lynch puts it, "our favorite parlor game is Demographics and Expectancies"), so perhaps a few familiar generalities are excusable--an occupational hazard of the poet-essayist-mortician. In Lynch's case (and there probably isn't another), they seem a fair exchange for his entertaining and often surprisingly humble wisdom. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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The Body Broken : Answering God's Call to Love One Anotherby Robert BensonISBN 0385506147 (0-385-50614-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Chance Meetingsby William SaroyanISBN 0393009696 (0-393-00969-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journeyby Elmaz AbinaderISBN 0393029522 (0-393-02952-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cinderella Story : My Life in Golfby Bill Murray, George PeperISBN 0385495714 (0-385-49571-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P Feynman, Ralph LeightonISBN 0393061329 (0-393-06132-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums, solving the mystery of the Challenger disaster, and much else of an eyebrow-raising, hugely entertaining, and astounding nature. One of the most influential and creative minds of recent history, Feynman also possessed an unparalleled ability as a storyteller, a delightful coincidence celebrated in this special omnibus edition of his classic stories. Now packaged with an hour-long audio CD of the 1978 "Los Alamos from Below" lecture, Classic Feynman offers readers a chance to finally hear a great tale in the orator's own voice. [via]More editions of Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character:
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Color Is the Suffering of Light: A Memoirby Melissa GreenISBN 0393036502 (0-393-03650-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Color Is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir'Book summary:Set on a Massachusetts farm in the 1960s, this memoir about the author's childhood, and the legacy of three generations of her family, is a vivid portrait of a young girl searching for meaning and beauty in a world where mother love - so fierce that it becomes pathological - cripples those whom it would nurture; where real and spiritual poverty, alcoholism, and despair pit themselves against the imaginative life; where nature and language become a creative child's only allies. Of her family, award-winning poet Melissa Green writes: "I looked down at the old photograph and into the proud, angry, hurt, scheming, unforgiving, tender faces of the Greens. Their family was just like ours. Then I thought: it is ours. How did love get so mixed up with hatred? How did kindness turn to bitterness? Why was envy, resentment, fury, unhappiness, blame, and the deeply felt belief that life had cheated them, that they deserved better, at the heart of everything they said? Their blood was in mine. Their sadness and defeat and defiance ran through my veins until they joined like rivers at my heart." Alive with the feeling and color that distinguish its author's widely praised poems, this book richly evokes the process by which certain memories burn themselves indelibly into our minds, changing forever who we are. [via]
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The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countrysideby Amanda Hesser, Kate GridleyISBN 0393046680 (0-393-04668-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hesser worked hard to get M. Milbert to talk with her. She shares the careful, deliberate way she wooed him, sometimes by bringing freshly baked bread to his less mobile wife, sometimes by holding back questions she wanted to ask, just to win his tolerance of her presence. Crusty, surly, and tradition-bound, he is the quintessential French peasant. Fortunately, Hesser--who is respectful and patient even when M. Milbert's stubborn ways exasperated her--knows he is an almost-vanished breed. None of his children, or anyone else, is likely to work as he has, continuing to live mainly off the land for nearly 60 years.
Each chapter covers a month, starting with March, when the nearly 400-year-old walled garden comes to life. Hesser talks about the garden, how she used the bounty gathered by M. Milbert, and muses on life in and around Burgundy. In September, "the rains seemed to clean off and illuminate the plants' colors ... everything seemed to wake up, as after a hot, cranky nap." The final tomatoes are harvested, as are the green and butter beans, with Milbert sneakily keeping the best for himself. Hesser visits a neighbor's Portuguese-style garden, as exuberant and vivid as Milbert's is restrained and disciplined. She cooks sautéed red snapper with tomatoes, fennel, and vermouth; makes a profound Tomato Consommé; and slow roasts tomatoes into meltingly tender mounds.
Sepia drawings by Kate Gridley add to the low-key charm of this information-packed work. (It even includes a history of purslane going back to the Middle Ages.)
The knowledge and maturity of this work belie Hesser's youth. Not yet 30 at the time of writing, she's a wise cook worth following. --Dana Jacobi [via]
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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beatby Edna BuchananISBN 0394557948 (0-394-55794-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dutchby Edmund MorrisISBN 0394555082 (0-394-55508-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dutch'Book summary:Why did Pulitzer-winning Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris controversially choose to write his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan in the form of a historical novel? There's a clue in a quote the book attributes to Jane Wyman, Reagan's first wife. As Ronnie speechified about the Red Menace at a 1940s Hollywood party, Wyman allegedly whispered to a friend, "I'm so bored with him, I'll either kill him or kill myself." This anecdote, if true, is more revealing than Nancy Reagan's charge in the book that Jane had attempted suicide to get Ronnie to marry her in the first place. Jane was no intellectual--Morris cracks that "If Jane had ever heard of Finland, she probably thought it was an aquarium"--but he found to his horror, after years of research, that he felt much the same as Wyman. Reagan was as boring as a box of rocks, as elusive as a ghost.
Decades before Alzheimer's clouded Reagan's mind, he showed a terrifying lack of human presence. "I was real proud when Dad came to my high school commencement," reports his son, Michael Reagan. After posing for photos with Michael and his classmates, the future president came up to him, looked right in his eyes, and said, "Hi, my name's Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" Poor Michael replied, "Dad, it's me. Your son. Mike."
Despite deep research and unprecedented access--no previous biography has ever been authorized by a sitting president--Morris could get no closer to Reagan's elusive soul than Reagan's own kids could. So Morris decided to dramatize Reagan's life with several invented characters--including a fictionalized version of himself and an imaginary gossip columnist who makes wicked comments on Reagan's career. This is one weird tactic, forcing the reader constantly to consult the footnotes at the back of the book to sort things out, and Morris makes it tougher by presenting his invented characters as real, even in the footnotes.
Ultimately, the hubbub over Morris's odd method is beside the point. His speculative entry into Reagan's life and mind is plausible, dramatic, literary, and lit by dazzling flashes of insight. The narrator watches the young Reagan as a lifeguard (years before the real Morris was born):
One tunnels along in a shroud of silvery bubbles, insulated from any sight or sound.... Others may swim alongside for a while, but their individuality tends to refract away, through the bubbles and the blur. Often I have marveled at Reagan's cool, unhurried progress through crises of politics and personnel, and thought to myself, He sees the world as a swimmer sees it.
We cannot verify Morris's notion that Reagan probably approved the illegal Iran-Contra funding without having a clue it was illegal, or that the "Star Wars" program sprang from his love of Edgar Rice Burroughs's first novel, A Princess of Mars, which featured glass-domed cities. But however bizarre and ignorant his thoughts were, however cold his heart, Morris believes, the guy did crush the Evil Empire and achieve greatness. Morris achieves a kind of greatness, too, but one wishes he had written a more straightforward dramatization of history. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Echoes of an Autobiographyby Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-DaviesISBN 0385485565 (0-385-48556-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountainsby Jon KrakauerISBN 0385488181 (0-385-48818-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains'Book summary:No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into Eiger Dreams you will begin to shiver. Halfway through you will acquire a new appreciation for your fingers, toes, and the fact that you still have a nose. And by the end of this collection, you'll define some commonly used phrases in an entirely different way. The understated "catch some air" and the whimsical "log some flight time" are climbers' euphemisms for falling, while "crater" refers to what happens when you log some flight time all the way to the ground. "Summiting," the term for reaching the top of a mountain, seems almost colorless in comparison. The various heroes, risk-takers, incompetents, and individualists Krakauer captures are more than colorful, whether they summit or not. The author is more interested in exploring the addiction of risk--the intensity of effort--than mere triumph. There's the mythical minimalist climber, John Gill, whose fame "rests entirely on assents less than thirty feet high," and the Burgess brothers--freewheeling, free-floating English twins who seem to make all the right decisions when it counts, and hence most often fail to reach the top. Of course, they are alive. Over these and other talented climbers hangs a malignant, endlessly creative nature--its foehn winds can make people crazy and its avalanches do far worse. Eiger Dreams is an adrenaline fest for the weary, an overdue examination of a stylish, brave subculture. As one of the heroes Krakauer outlines says of his occupation, "It's sort of like having fun, only different." [via]
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Yearby May SartonISBN 0393313174 (0-393-31317-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Fan's Notesby ExleyISBN 0394496418 (0-394-49641-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personalityby Joan F. CaseyISBN 0394568427 (0-394-56842-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality'Book summary:The dramatic memoirs of a young woman who triumphed over Multiple Personality Disorder, complemented by the case notes of her therapist, follows her unorthodox therapy, providing an illuminating view of this affliction Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind, and it is absolutely mesmerizing....Simply not be be missed."THE DETROIT NEWSWhen Joan Frances Casey "awoke" on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. And it wasn`t the first time she had blanked out. She decided to give therapy another try. And after a few sessions, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, was shocked to discover that Joan had MPD--Multiple Personality Disorder. And as she came to know Joan`s distinct selves, Lynn uncovered a nightmarish pattern of emotional and physical abuse, including rape and incest, that nearly succeeded in smothering the artistic and intellectual gifts of this amazing young woman" [via]
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God, Doctor Buzzard, and the Bolito Man : A Memoir of Life on Sapelo Islandby Cornelia Walker Bailey, Christena BledsoeISBN 0385493762 (0-385-49376-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Islandby Cornelia Bailey, Christena BledsoeISBN 0385493770 (0-385-49377-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island'Book summary:It has been said that the Africans who were brought to the United States as slaves were completely stripped of their native culture. But pioneering scholars such as anthropologist Melville Herskovits have disproved this in academia, while the literature of Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison has also debunked this persistent myth. Living proof of that fact is Sapelo Island, a South Sea island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, where West African traditions persist despite considerable odds. This vivid memoir by Cornelia Walker Bailey, a lecturer and tour guide on Sapelo Island, transports the reader to this enchanted land of miracles and magic.
Walker is a self-described "Geechee," a descendant of Islamic African slaves taken from modern-day Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Liberia (she traces her family lineage on the island back to 1803). In God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man, the author brings alive a land where black people speak an African-based Creole language, believe in "mojo" (the American equivalent of Haitian voodoo), and who work to keep their culture alive. "You can think of the Africans as being victims, and in a sense they were" she writes. "But they were also great survivors. If they survived the Middle Passage, and a lot of people didn't, then they survived everything thrown at them. They were determined people." Thanks in large part to Bailey, this determination lives on. But her book, which recalls life on Sapelo Island from the 1940s and rings with the same ebullient language found in Jean Toomer's Cane, also serves as a warning, noting that outside business interests and the disinterest of the youth threaten the very existence of their ancient ways. "We need to be proud of our ancestors from slavery days and of our old people who went through modern hardships and to learn from them that if you believe in something, strength comes from that." With this book, she hopes to pass some of that strength on. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Gone Boy: A Walkaboutby Gregory GibsonISBN 0385720041 (0-385-72004-1)
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Goodbye to a Riverby John GravesISBN 0394426908 (0-394-42690-8)
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Great Escapeby Paul BrickhillISBN 0393325792 (0-393-32579-2)
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They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred menevery one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs [via]More editions of Great Escape:
Half a Lifeby Jill CimentISBN 0385488912 (0-385-48891-2)
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Hanna and Walter: A Love Storyby Hanna Kohner, Walter KohnerISBN 0394521641 (0-394-52164-1)
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Hold On, Mr. Presidentby Sam DonaldsonISBN 0394553934 (0-394-55393-4)
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How It Wasby Mary W. HemingwayISBN 0394401093 (0-394-40109-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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How To Be A Man: Scenes From A Protracted Boyhoodby Thomas BellerISBN 0393326837 (0-393-32683-7)
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiographyby May SartonISBN 0393312488 (0-393-31248-8)
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography. Reprint of the 1959 Edby May SartonISBN 0393009165 (0-393-00916-5)
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The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedomby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0385483481 (0-385-48348-1)
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
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An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeakeby Tom HortonISBN 0393039382 (0-393-03938-2)
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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing Itby Gina Smith, Steve WozniakISBN 0393061434 (0-393-06143-4)
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Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use.
Wozniak's lifebefore and after Appleis a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. 16 pages of illustrations. [via]More editions of iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It:
Jigsaw : An Unsentimental Educationby Sybille BedfordISBN 0394493400 (0-394-49340-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Journals of Sylvia Plathby Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCulloughISBN 0385493916 (0-385-49391-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her Sargasso, her repository of imagination, a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives, and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plaths ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. Written in electrifying prose, The Journals of Sylvia Plath provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plaths life and work. [via]
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Louisa May Alcott : An Intimate Anthologyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0385487223 (0-385-48722-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Made in Detroit: A South of 8-mile Memoirby Paul ClemensISBN 038551140X (0-385-51140-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Man's Fateby Andre MalrauxISBN 0394543793 (0-394-54379-3)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Fate'Book summary:Man's Fate was first published in 1933. As a fictional account of the early days of the Chinese Revolution, this novel remains a powerful expression of psychological insight into the spirit of political revolution. From the opening scene, in which Chinese terrorist Ch'en Ta Erh struggles internally over his task of assassinating a sleeping man, Malraux combines gritty action with an elaboration of the existential principle that social change is powered by the actions of individuals. [via]
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Me and Shakespeare : Life-Changing Adventures with the Bardby Herman GollobISBN 0385498179 (0-385-49817-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Memoirs of a Survivorby Doris LessingISBN 0394496337 (0-394-49633-7)
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The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, Member of the French Institute: Including His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England, 1803-1865by Hector Berlioz, David CairnsISBN 0393006980 (0-393-00698-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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Moral Disorder: And Other Storiesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385503849 (0-385-50384-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moral Disorder: And Other Stories'Book summary:Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder, she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with itthose of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly observed moments. The 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and the present all are here. The settings vary: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.
The Bad News is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then switches time as the central character moves through childhood and adolescence in The Art of Cooking and Serving, The Headless Horseman, and My Last Duchess. We follow her into young adulthood in The Other Place and then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories: Monopoly, Moral Disorder, White Horse, and The Entities. The last two stories, "The Labrador Fiasco" and "The Boys at the Lab," deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle.
By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. As the New York Times has said: "The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imaginations. [via]More editions of Moral Disorder: And Other Stories:
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0394508262 (0-394-50826-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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My Last Sighby Luis BuñuelISBN 0394528549 (0-394-52854-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reaganby Nancy Reagan, William NovakISBN 0394563689 (0-394-56368-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393976122 (0-393-97612-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground". [via]
Once upon a Time: A True Storyby Gloria VanderbiltISBN 039454112X (0-394-54112-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes Of My Lifeby Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson PollakISBN 0385514131 (0-385-51413-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Place in the Woodsby Helen M. Hoover, Adrian HooverISBN 039444065X (0-394-44065-X)
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Queer Street: Rise And Fall Of An American Culture, 1947-1985by James McCourtISBN 0393326403 (0-393-32640-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queer Street: Rise And Fall Of An American Culture, 1947-1985'Book summary:Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York in the golden age before McCarthyism, "Queer Street" tells the explosive story of gay culture in the latter half of the 20th century. Coming out himself in the "buttoned-up/button-down" 1950s, McCourt positions his own homosexual experience against the whirlwind history of the era, summoning a pageant of characters that includes Harry Hay, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote amongst many others. Mixing the theories of Nietzsche and Sontag with the history of the Greenwich Village, McCourt highlights the major events fo the period: the landmark eruption at the Stonewall Inn; the AIDS crisis that brought an end to the bathhouse culture; the ascendancy of the Christian right; and finally the social acceptance of gays that paradoxically marked the demise of queer culture. [via]
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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecomingby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0385473079 (0-385-47307-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming'Book summary:The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming is a spiritual adventure story. A chance encounter with a poster depicting a detail of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son set in motion a chain of events that enabled Nouwen to redefine and claim his vocation late in his life. In this book, which interweaves elements of art history, memoir, Midrash, and self-help, Nouwen brings the parable to life with empathic analyses of each character. Nouwen's absorption in the story (and the painting) is so complete that the father's challenge to love the son, and the son's challenge to receive that love, become Nouwen's own. And Nouwen's writing is so clear and his tone is so appealingly frank and humble that readers--no matter how far from home--will find hope for themselves in the prodigal peace Nouwen ultimately achieves. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Return to Earthby Wayne Warga, Edwin E. AldrinISBN 0394488326 (0-394-48832-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicideby A. AlvarezISBN 0393306577 (0-393-30657-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. [via]More editions of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide:
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Templeby Deborah LaytonISBN 0385489846 (0-385-48984-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Six Menby Alistair CookeISBN 0394423526 (0-394-42352-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Men'Book summary:During his broadcasting career Alistair Cooke met and knew some of the twentieth century's most fascinating and legendary figures, in journalism, politics, public life, sport and film. This is his highly personal and revealing account of six remarkable men who crossed Cooke's path during his lifetime and who, each in their own way, made a lasting impression on him. Here are candid portraits of the lovable yet unreliable Charlie Chaplin, who, when asked to be Cooke's best man, mysteriously vanished on the day; the complex and private man behind Humphrey Bogart's tough guy image; and the charming yet childlike 'golden boy' Edward VIII. Cooke also recalls his friend and mentor, the flawed contrarian and satirist H.L. Mencken, the larger-than-life liberal politician Adlai Stevenson and the heroic social reformer Bertrand Russell. Each superbly realized portrait gives us an insight into a golden age of 'great men', and is a masterpiece of observation, warmth and humour. [via]
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Sky Burialby Xinran, Julia Lovell, Esther TyldesleyISBN 0385515480 (0-385-51548-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Burial'Book summary:It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of Tibet.
Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husbands death.
In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wens journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a land, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love loss, loyalty, and survival. [via]More editions of Sky Burial:
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394505271 (0-394-50527-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's Adolescenceby Deborah DiggesISBN 0385720939 (0-385-72093-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailorby Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph HoganISBN 0394548108 (0-394-54810-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widowby Anna LarinaISBN 0393312348 (0-393-31234-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoirby Rosemary L. BrayISBN 0385494750 (0-385-49475-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Up at Oxfordby Ved MehtaISBN 0393035441 (0-393-03544-1)
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Up Frontby Bill Mauldin, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0393050319 (0-393-05031-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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What's to Become of the Boy? : Or, Something to Do with Booksby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0394530160 (0-394-53016-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rougeby Chanrithy HimISBN 0393322106 (0-393-32210-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgeryby Frank T. VertosickISBN 0393038947 (0-393-03894-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identityby David MuraISBN 038547184X (0-385-47184-X)
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Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golfby Rick ReillyISBN 0385488858 (0-385-48885-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cubaby Arnold SamuelsonISBN 0394539834 (0-394-53983-4)
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Workingby Studs TerkelISBN 0394478843 (0-394-47884-3)
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Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Lettersby Isaac Asimov, Stanley AsimovISBN 0385476248 (0-385-47624-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Echoes of an Autobiographyby Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies, Nadine GordimerISBN 0385485557 (0-385-48555-7)
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